Tour Guide Conductor

Wallace Bass Boyd

*** *. ******** ***** • Rockville, MD 20852

***************@*****.*** • 917-***-****

Objective: To create safe, collaborative, just, mind-opening, freewheeling, fun and engaging travel and learning experiences.

Licensure: Tour Guide (NY-149961DCA and DC-TGL1112 ); CDL-BPS (NY- 606744224)

Certifications: ITMI, American Red Cross (First Aid, CPR, AED) Languages: Spanish (conversational), some German, Brazilian Portuguese, and French. Tour Director/Guide Experience:

Georgia and Alabama –

- Atlanta – Stone Mountain, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Centennial Park, APEX Museum

- Montgomery/Selma – Alabama State Capitol, Civil Right Memorial, Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Rosa Parks Museum, Selma Interpretative Center, Edmund Pettis Bridge, National Voting Museum and Institute.

- Birmingham – Civil Rights Institute, 16th Street Baptist Church, and Kelly Ingram Park.

New York City/Washington DC –

- New York City – Inside-Out Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Tour (2021), Unlimited Biking Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge biking and walking tours (2017-18), Go New York double-decker bus tours (2014).

- Washington DC – Trolley Conductor at Historic Tours of America’s Monuments, Memorials and Museums Tour and the

“We the People” student tour

• Student Tours

- World Strides-Explorica – led multiple tours in DC, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.

- Grand Classroom – Led multiple multi-day tours in DC, New York, and the southeast (Civil Rights Tour).

- EF Explore America – Led multiple multi-day tours from DC to New York, and one from Boston to Virginia

Named Outstanding Student Tour Director during my first season (2013). Domestic Tour Experience/Destination Knowledge:

• MID-ATLANTIC STATES: New York – New York City; Pennsylvania – Gettysburg, Philadelphia; Washington D.C.; Virginia – Arlington, Mt. Vernon, Williamsburg, Richmond, Monticello; Maryland – Baltimore; Massachusetts – Boston, Salem, Cambridge, Lexington/Concord; Rhode Island - Newport

• SOUTHERN STATES: North Carolina – Asheville, Brasstown; Georgia – Atlanta, Stone Mountain, Columbus; Alabama

– Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma; Louisiana – New Orleans; Florida – Key West, Tampa, Bradenton, Sarasota; Kentucky

– Lexington, Louisville; Tennessee – Chattanooga, Memphis, Jonesborough (National Storytelling Center)

• WESTERN STATES: California – San Francisco, Sausalito, Napa/Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles; Arizona – Phoenix, Grand Canyon, Tempe; New Mexico – Albuquerque, Santa Fe; Oregon – Portland; Colorado – Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder; Washington - Seattle

International Tour Experience/Destination Knowledge: Basel, Berlin, Maastricht (The Netherlands), Paris, Rome, Helsinki, Talinn (Estonia), and Mexico City, as well as Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, England, Scotland.

Additional Experience and Skills:

• President, “President’s Distinguished” Toast of the Bronx Toastmasters Club, Toastmasters International (2020-2021)

• Two-time Grant Award Winner, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY (2015-2017)

• News Reporter, New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1990-1995) Education:

• International Tour Management Institute, San Francisco - Certified Tour Director

• Florida State University, Tallahassee – M.A. Mass Communications and Interactive Multimedia

• Emory University, Atlanta – B.A. Liberal Studies with minor in Education Special Expertise: African American colonial history, playwriting, memoir, knitting, crochet, spinning, and drumming.

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